Taylor Swift is ready to go back to December with ex-boyfriend Taylor Lautner — by means of having him famous person in her “I Can See You” song video.
The Grammy-winning songstress, 33, debuted the music video right through her Friday, July 7, Eras Tour forestall in Kansas City a number of hours earlier than it dropped on YouTube. In the pictures, Swift — dressed in her Speak Now era, entire with the “Long Live” lyrics written on her arm — is locked in a bank vault, determined to escape. Lautner, 31, Joey King and Presley Cash, for his or her portions, are tasked with breaking her out.
“I wrote this video remedy over a yr in the past and truly sought after to play out symbolically the way it’s felt for me to have the fans helping me reclaim my music,” Swift wrote by means of Instagram afterward Friday evening. “I had my center set on @joeyking, @taylorlautner and @helloimpresleycash starring in it. Joey and Presley had been in the video for ‘Mean’ after they have been Nine and 13 and they are again and so ridiculously dangerous ass!! Taytay is INCREDIBLE in this (didn’t have a stunt double!) and shout out to [his spouse, Taylor Dome] for being so superior to hold with on set. The Tale of 3 Taylors 😆.”
After Swift premiered the video for Arrowhead Stadium concertgoers, she invited the solid onstage. The Twilight superstar, who dated Swift between August and December 2009, did a backflip down the catwalk after the “Dear John” songstress referred to as his title.
“He was an excessively sure power in my life when I used to be making the Speak Now album and I need to say he did each unmarried stunt that you saw in that music video,” Swift — who referred to Lautner as “TayTay” in her advent — gushed right through the live performance, in line with social media footage. “He and his wife have change into some of my closest pals and it’s very handy as a result of we all percentage the same first identify.”
Lautner — who married Dome, 26, in November 2022 — beamed over Swift’s heartfelt tribute, noting he respects her “such a lot.” He added: “Not only for the singer you're, the songwriter, the performer, but actually for the human you're. You are gracious, humble, type and I’m commemorated to know you.”
Swift and Lautner had been first connected after playing teenage fans in 2010’s Valentine’s Day. Amid their early romance, the Michigan native was front-and-center when Swift gained a Video Music Award in 2009 ahead of her moment was overshadowed via Kanye West proclaiming that Beyoncé should have won the trophy as an alternative.
“Yeah [we had simply long past public] and I offered the award to her, so I gave her the award [and] I took 5 steps again and was status 5 feet behind her,” Lautner recalled during a February episode of his “The Squeeze” podcast. “In the middle of giving her thank-you speech, Kanye jumps up onto the level. I can barely hear it. I can’t see them. I’m simply assuming that this whole thing was once a practiced and rehearsed skit as a result of why else would Kanye West be jumping up on the degree, interrupting Taylor Swift? It just didn’t make sense.”
He continued on the time: “He jumped off, she completed [and] the second one she became again around and I saw her face for the primary time, I was like, ‘Oh. No, that wasn’t excellent.’”
West, 46, eventually apologized for his actions and Swift took inspiration from the incident whilst writing Speak Now. Her track “Innocent,” which is featured on the rerecorded album, used to be penned about the moment and the rapper’s apology.
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Swift’s Friday display coincided with the release of her rerecorded Speak Now album, which is the sixth LP that she now owns. To have a good time, Kansas City Swifties have been handled to several surprises, including brand-new, purple (to match the technology) outfits and surprise songs off the album. Swift sang “When Emma Falls in Love (From the Vault)” and “Never Grow Up” all over the acoustic units, shortly after including “Long Live” to the Speak Now segment. While performing “Long Live,” she strummed the melody on the identical koi fish-decorated, blue guitar that she used on the 2010 are living excursion.
Lautner, for his phase, watched the bulk of the show from the VIP tent in the crowd alongside his spouse and King, 23. The Kissing Booth actress — who costarred with Swift’s BFF Selena Gomez in 2010’s Ramona and Beezus — additionally brought her sister, Hunter King, to the live performance.
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